Heebert moeley small



(N9 Model.)

H MSMALL GARPET STRETGHER.

Patented Oct. 26, 1886. f

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

HERBERT MORIJEY SMALL, BALDWINSVILLE, MASSACHUSETTS.

`CARPET-STRETC H ER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 351,664, dated October.n 26, 1886. I

` Application filed March 17, 1886. Serial No. 195,499. (No model.)

To all` whom it may concern:

lle it known that I, HERBERT MoRLEY SMALL, of Baldwinsville, in the county of Worcester, of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Carpet-Stretchers; and I do hereby declare the same to be described in the followingspeciication and represented in the accompanying drawings, of which- Figure 1 is atop view, Fig. 2a bottom View, and Fig. 3 an end elevation, of acarpet-stretcher embodying my invention, the nature of which is defined in the claim hereinafter presented.

In such drawings, A denotes a flat bar, of wood orother proper material, having fixed to Aone side of it, at its opposite ends,` two square or other suitably-shaped pieces of card clothing, or, in the place thereof, a series of points or hooked or bent wires. Connected at one end to the bar A, at its middle, is achain or cord, B, which at its other end is fastened to a hook, C, whose blade c is at a right angle to its shank b. l

To use such carpet-stretcher, the point of the hook is to be driven into the tloor close to the mop-board or wall, after which one end of the bar A is to be drawn backward from the hook as far as the cord or chain will allow, andthe wires or points at such end are to be pressed into the carpet, which having been done the other end of the bar is to be pulled rearwardly, so as to cause the front end with the" part of the carpet to which it is connected to be advanced or moved forward. On the carpet having been stretched sufticientl y, the points of the end pulled rearwardly vare to be pressed I do not claim a carpet-stretcher consisting of a plate having in it a range ot' teeth extending substantially from end to end thereof, a cord -xed at its ends to such plate, and a notched and pointed lever-,all being as shown x in the United States Patent No. 256,838, forI have to my carpet-stretcher no such lever, and I have points projecting down from its bar only, near the ends thereof, and I have the cord or line connected at one end only to the bar at its middle and at the other to a hook, the bar itself being used, as described, as alever to stretch a carpet, all of which cannot be done bythe bar ot' the carpet-stretcher of such patent. y

I claim* y l The carpet -stretcher, substantially as described, consisting of the bar provided with points or card clothing projecting from it near its ends only, and of the hook and the chain or cord connecting such hook and bar at the middle of the latter, all being arranged essentially as represented.

HERBERT MOELEY SMALL.

Witnesses:

R2 H. EDDY,

R. B. TORREY. 

